"A Cottage"
(included in Ladies Valentines, 1810)
My fair have you really decided your Lot
Would be happily fated with Love in a Cot?
Can you [the privations] of Solitude bear
Nor ever regret to have industry near?
If tender affection preside in your breast
If your Heart’s warmest feelings Ay duty are blest,
If [to] bliss[es] domestic your wishes are bent,
your mansion or Cot will be [that] of Content.
Miss Ann Russell